China’s parade is about to get started. Xi is making a speech where he says China is a force for peace, development, etc. Anyway…time to roll those new missiles, UxVs, armored vehicles, etc. (I’ll be posting any stuff that I see that’s particularly interesting. Here we go…)

Excellent first attempt at making sense of the seemingly contradictory findings regarding effects of AI on novice workers. Can't wait to see this in print!

It has been done before; it can be done again!

Christianity remained predominantly non-western until the fourteenth century, for well over half of Christian history. (You can read more on this by me here seenandunseen.com/edward-i-and-m…) 12/17

Social media and new media have many problems but think about this: you wouldn't have even heard about what happened to Iryna Zarutska if it wasn't for X.

Swiss glaciers in 2025: New GLAMOS numbers are out! 3% ice volume reduction - another devastating year for #glaciers. Rank 4 after 2022+2023. The loss was driven by little winter snow and heat waves in June and August. Read SCNAT press release scnat.ch/en/uuid/i/9d88…

1/In the Eurozone, unconventional monetary policy leads to large cross-border fiscal transfers because it allows the periphery to borrow from the core at belo-market rates. We quantify these transfers.

🚨Now out in The JHR: ⛪️Can Schools Change Religious Attitudes? Evidence from German State Reforms of Compulsory Religious Education w/ Benjamin Arold & larissa_zierow 👉Religious education in school affects students’ adult lives 🔗jhr.uwpress.org/content/early/… A🧵 1/6

Heute wurden drei Ökonomen ausgezeichnet, die über die Schumpetersche Idee der schöpferischen Zerstörung geforscht haben. Viel Lesestoff auch für deutsche Wirtschaftspolitik-Diskurse, in denen es ja sehr oft immer vor allem um die Bewahrung des Gegebenen geht.

Die junge Horde schlägt wieder zu: Die 18 Abgeordneten um Pascal Reddig haben der Fraktionsführung mitgeteilt, dass das Rentenpaket »nicht zustimmungsfähig« ist. Johannes Winkel hatte das vergangene Woche in Fraktionssitzung schon angedroht. Damit fehlt Koalition die Mehrheit.

Und das wohlgemerkt in einer Zeit, in der AI den bürokratischen Apparat - theoretisch - massiv verschlanken könnte.

Wow! Across basically all of Europe, people at higher income levels are now *more likely* to become parents! This is a stunning shift!

🤖New Tech, New Threat?🤖 New working paper w/ @profjanegreen.bsky.social & Geoff Evans asks: Are AI-exposed workers demanding more gov. regulation? Looks like it in UK. Though not the only factor, AI’s workplace rollout matters politics. LINK: advance.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.... 1/16